Special Report Transcript Episode 46, Section 4, Time 12:14

So by the eighties or post-76 period resistance emerged; that resistance: 1976, 1980, 1982 and 83, 1985 highlighted the plight of education being one of the most critical features of how apartheid dominated the oppressed in the country. // In November last year the National Literacy Cooperation and other education stakeholders asked the TRC to investigate the past education system. They argue that racist education was a violation of a basic human right. // I think the Truth Commission, even though its brief is narrow with respect to the experiences of activists and the maiming and killing that is spoken about in the hearings. We wanted the Truth Commission to broaden its perspective around whether socio-economic rights or education rights that we want to see for the future could be given a kick start…

Notes: Enrico Fourie (National Literacy Cooperation); Reporter; Student uprising; Enrico Fourie

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